Cuesta Arriba Tango Club

Welcome to our Tango Music Club!

Nothing improves your dancing so much as a good feeling for the special qualities of tango music.
The idea of the club was to help you build a library of good tango music, tailored to your own tastes.

The club ran for 8 years, from December 2008 to December 2015, but was forced to close because of the reducing supply of tango CDs,
itself a consequence of on-line listening (youtube and spotify) and of course copying.

Orquestas Olvidadas Vol.2 (Temas Cantados)

EMI 473894

An important CD with some fantastic music - how did José Tinelli and Antonio Rodio not become huge stars? Just don't talk about the late Donato...

Essential

Track list

Manuel Buzón - Fueye

José Tinelli - Amor que se hace llanto

Antonio Rodio - Dónde estás corazón?

Alfredo Attadia - Tus besos fueron míos

Edgardo Donato - Será una noche

Eduardo Del Piano - No me pregunten porqué

Ricardo Pedevilla - Patria milonga

Mario Demarco - Mañana zarpa un barco

Edgardo Donato - Patio de la morocha

Jorge Fernandez - Rosa de otoño vals

Eduardo Del Piano - Buenos Aires

Edgardo Donato - Mi serenata

Antonio Rodio - Rosa celeste

Alfredo Attadia - Bettinoti milonga

Eduardo Del Piano - Mandria

Edgardo Donato - Se va la vida

Eduardo Del Piano - Noche de locura

Edgardo Donato - Remembranza

Eduardo Del Piano - Prepárate p'al domingo

Edgardo Donato - Tu olvido vals

Tango Collection - Carlos Di Sarli Instrumental 1928-1931

RGS 1653

A fabulous CD of Carlos Di Sarli's sextet which you must already have. Mustn't you?
The quality is so high, I won't even bother naming individual tracks.

These fabulous sides won't be to everyone's taste. Beats me though. I just can't get enough of this period.

Despite the title, don't forgot that there is an estribillista (refran singer) on Maldita.

Track list

T B C

La guitarrita

Cuando bronca el temporal

Soy un arlequín

Un lamento

El paladín

Sos una fiera

Mi pibe

Barrilete

Belén

Che bacana

Algo bueno

Sábado

Criollo viejo

Don José María

Racing Club

Palito

Añorándote

Una noche de garufa

Maldita

D'Agostino/Vargas - Tango de los Angeles vol.4

BMG 63338

The fourth and final album of BMG's 4 disc set of the understated music of the two angels, Angel D'Agostino and his vocalist Angel Vargas.
D'Agostino pulled off a trick what was impossible for everyone else in the 1940s: making music that was subtle and spacious, yet still full of rhythmic interest for the dancers.

Exploring a four album set can be much like listening to the end of a 20 track CD.
The attention starts to wander before the end and we end up missing some great tracks.
It's the same with this fourth disc.

As if to purposefully put us off, the album opens with a transfer of 1955's Café Dominguez that will disappoint anyone who has heard the version on Euro Records taken from the original tape master.
After this though the album is packed with little-known tracks of five star quality, focussing on the years 1942-1945.
Let's hope that tracks such as
Caricias,
Gorriones
and many other fine tracks will soon be heard much more frequently than they are now.

Track list

Café Dominguez

Caricias

Cuando se ha querido mucho

Cantando olvidaré

Dice un refrán

Menta y cedrón

De salto y carta

Mi viejo barrio

Guitarra que llora

Gorriones

La nueva vecina

Me llaman tango

Rosita la santiagueña

Poncho del olvido

Camino del Tucumán

Con sabor a tango

La carreta

El cornetín del tranvía

Cardo azul

No aflojés

Aníbal Troilo - La Cumparsita (1943)

BMG 659440

Exquisite mid 1940s Troilo, sophisticated, danceable, and still scandalously underplayed in the milonga.